James Madison Papers

To James Madison from Ralph Fuentes, 7 January 1802 (Abstract)

§ From Ralph Fuentes

7 January 1802, Tenerife. States that John Culnan, U.S. consul for the Canary Islands, appointed him deputy on 10 May 1798 while Culnan went to Europe. Culnan returned to the island, but “his Health obliged him again to leave it in Septr. 1800”; he is now in a precarious state of health, and Fuentes doubts he will ever return. Has discovered that the fees are disappointing and demands from distressed Americans are many. Asks to be excused from his commission but will perform duties until a replacement is named.

RC (DNA: RG 59, CD, Tenerife, vol. 1). 2 pp. Duplicate copy (ibid.) dated 10 Jan. Jefferson nominated George Washington McElroy as consul on 2 Feb. 1802 (Senate Exec. Proceedings description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends , 1:406).

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    To James Madison from Ralph Fuentes, 7 January 1802 (Abstract)
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    Fuentes, Ralph
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    Madison, James
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    7 January 1802

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    “To James Madison from Ralph Fuentes, 7 January 1802 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-02-02-0545. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 2, 1 August 1801 – 28 February 1802, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, and Susan Holbrook Perdue. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 371–372.]

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